Wild Plant Walks

Learn about practical uses for wild plants.

Come on a wild plant walk to develop your practical knowledge of plants. Learn where to find food, medicine, natural dyes, and other useful things. How to harvest, and how to find good places for gathering. Learn how to create delicious substantial meals from wild plants. Feel the effects of eating wild food every day. Enjoying what is naturally available.

I am running private one-one and group walks in Devon, shaping the day around your interests. Contact me to arrange a time.

Learn about the roots, barks, stems, leaves, and flowers growing all around us that can be used to create natural dyes for textiles and arts. Before the development of synthetic dyes in the 19th Century, a colours came directly from plants, fungi, insects, rocks, or lichen.

On this walk, we will be getting to know around 15 wild and cultivated plants that are growing commonly in parks, hedges, waysides, and gardens that we can use to create colour for textiles projects and the poisonous plants you should watch out for it order to forage safely. Looking at how to gather materials responsibly and where to look for abundance of wild plants in your local area. We will look as colour samples and discuss different techniques for extracting and applying colour.

Explore the vast diversity of edible spring plants, there are over 40 different wild greens you can eat in the spring. Learn the poisons you could mistake them for.

February - May

Coastal and estuary- Seaweed, seashore plants, estuary plants.

There is always a lot to be found along beaches and estuaries. Learn how to to gather and dry seaweed. How to identify the wide array of edible seashore & estuary plants.

All year

Summer Inland - Seeds, flowers, leaves

Learn how to gather wild seed for bread and spices. Which flowering plants and trees you can use for medicine. As the summer sun peaks, this is the best time to harvest wild natural dye plants. Shelter from the bright summer sun under the trees by the water where we can find many useful plants.